Fun Facts Collection - 27
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
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Noah Webster, who wrote the Webster Dictionary, was known as a short, pale, smug, boastful, humourless, yet religious man.
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Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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Bill Klem served the most seasons as major league umpire - 37 years, starting in 1905. He also officated 18 World Series.
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